There are two general views regarding the organization of object knowledge. The feature-based view assumes that object knowledge is grounded in a widely distributed neural network in terms of sensory/function features ...

Theories of task switching have emphasized a number of control mechanisms that may support the ability to flexibly switch between tasks. The present study examined the extent to which individual differences in working ...

Serious scientific games, especially those that include a virtual apprenticeship component, provide players with realistic experiences in science. This article discusses how science games can influence learning about science ...

This study investigated the nature of the underlying working memory system supporting sentence processing through examining individual differences in sensitivity to retrieval interference effects during sentence comprehension. ...

In cognitive network neuroscience, the connectivity and community structure of the brain network is related to measures of cognitive performance, like attention and memory. Research in this emerging discipline has largely ...

One of the most cited findings reported in the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Arum and Roska is that 45 percent of the students did not show a statistically significant gain in critical ...

Amultimedia game was designed to serve as a dual-purpose intervention that aligned with National
Science Content Standards, while also conveying knowledge about the consequences of alcohol
consumption for a secondary school ...

Objective: We investigated the association between teammate familiarity and workplace injury in the emergency medical services (EMS) setting. Methods: From January 2011 to November 2013, we abstracted a mean of 29 months ...

When unimpaired participants name pictures quickly, they produce many perseverations
that bear a semantic relation to the target, especially when the pictures are blocked by category.
Evidence suggests that the temporal ...

The recognition–action theory of chess skill holds that expertise in chess is due primarily to the ability to recognize familiar patterns of pieces. despite its widespread acclaim, empirical evidence for this theory is ...

Recent studies suggest that the form of some personality-performance relationships may be curvilinear, meaning that traditional top-down selection is inefficient in capitalizing on underlying personality-performance ...

Information about the order of items in a sequence can be conveyed either spatially or temporally. The current investigation examines whether these different modes of presentation map onto compatible mental representations ...

Surgery is a challenging domain for motor skill acquisition. A critical contributing factor in this difficulty is that feedback is often delayed from performance and qualitative in nature. Collection of highdensity motion ...

Prediction of academic success at post-secondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, ...

In three previous studies, manipulations of orthographic neighborhood size and orienting task were used to differentiate between item-specific and relational processing in young adults (aged 18–35) in standard recognition ...

In three experiments, we explored the semantic interference effect in verb production with the picture-word interference paradigm. Experiments 1 and 3 addressed whether there is an effect of semantically related distracters ...

One of the main goals of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was to ensure that voters with disabilities could vote privately and independently. However, the current state of most voting methods does not allow for private and ...